A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world
A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world
In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the
In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the
The questions raised in the festschrift for Leiden professor Pieter Emmer are ones that are just beginning to be addressed. What were the actual economic benefits of European colonization? How did sla
Historians from North America and Europe explore empirically the varied dimensions of the ambiguous relationship between cities and coercive power in the general absence of powerful state formations i
From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American continent. A combination of internal and external factors produce
This title is available online in Open Access. Originally published with ISBN: 978-90-67-18380-2.From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curacao, a small but strategically located Dutch col